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In a new study published in the journalScience, Lamont-Doherty researchers say they have confirmed that eruptions large enough to bury the U.S. under 300 feet of lava occurred at the same time that vast numbers of plant and animal species disappeared from the fossil record.

A forthcoming study co-authored by Lamont-Doherty scientist Adam Sobel shows that Hurricane Sandy's track was unprecedented in the historical record, and that major surge events are becoming more likely.

Lamont-Doherty climate scientist Maureen Raymo and postdoctoral researcher Alessio Rovere travel to South Africa to study where the seas stood 3 million years ago to understand how high the tide may rise in the future.

A team of geophysicists has published a study that suggests the relatively rapid warming of the Earth's poles may be down to a lack of cooling surface dust, which kept land frozen during the last ice age.

Summers on the Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard are now warmer than at any other time in the last 1,800 years, including during medieval times when parts of the northern hemisphere were as hot as, or hotter, than today, according to a new study in the journal Geology.

The world's oceans may be turning acidic faster today from human carbon emissions than they did during four major extinctions in the last 300 million years, when natural pulses of carbon sent global temperatures soaring, says a new study in Science.

The frigid seabottom off Antarctica holds a surprising riot of life: colorful carpets of sponges, starfish, sea cucumbers and many other soft, bottom-dwelling animals,shown on images from robotic submarines. Now, it appears that many such communities could fast disappear, due to warming climate.